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Finally pulled the trigger and bought the latest installment of one of Japan's longest-running game franchises, a new title emerging out of a sea of remakes and remasters with concerns about its storytelling but widespread acclaim for its combat.

That's right, it's SaGa Emerald Beyond time, baby!

Streaming at 8 p.m. tonight. How could three intelligent people playing Elden Ring Nightreign NOT succeed at this point?

The worst thing about being a married night owl is when the world starts falling apart at like 1 a.m. and knowing my wife is going to have to wake up to it.

Bad news, I was browsing the Steam "Detective" game tag but then I saw this and now I'm dead. I'd like to say I had a pretty good run, but it was actually a pretty lousy one, honestly! At least I'm not in the same world as this now, though

The Ratline on Steam A murdered priest. A secret list. Hunt Nazi fugitives across the globe in this gritty 1971 detective thriller. Analyze evidence, follow leads, and make sharp deductions before the trail goes cold. Fro...

Streaming tonight at 8 p.m. PST. I'm rolling solo, so I think we'll do some nice, wholesome Nazi hunting with the demo for Owlskip Games' The Ratline. Looking forward to this one! store.steampowered.com/app/3756940/...

Honestly, one of the best voice casts in games - including an extensive, very funny part played by Joe Pera. (There's also some shit that feels aimed directly at my exact tastes, including appearances from @pizzasuplex.bsky.social and Tom Walker and what I have to assume is a Farscape casting gag.)

Sam, it just doesn't have enough missions where I fight the same 60 guys at four different points on a map! I need another 10 missions like that!

Ditching Justin Roiland is the best thing that could have happened to High On Life 2 Ditching Justin Roiland is the best thing that could have happened to High On Life 2

I can say, with some confidence, that High On Life 2 is the best game I've ever played in which the actual, no screwing around John Waters voices an alien who runs a Spirit Halloween in space. www.avclub.com/high-on-life...

I keep taking these photos because it's all Gandalf wants to do. Any time I'm standing up, he gets to the top of the nearest waist-height object and meows until I let him leap aboard.

At Kitten And Extremely Tired-Looking Man, WE only win if YOU DO

You know news is very bad when it involves David Zaslav and Ted Sarandos, and neither look like the biggest villain of the story.

Honestly, I think Holland is the actual weak link in that stuff, he doesn't have the depth I want. Favorite scene of the movie is Garfield saving MJ in a way where he wordlessly communicates how many times he's replayed this moment in his head.

I like when they play Toby's song!

Everybody reacting today to their Evil, Rich Uncle outmaneuvering their Weird, Annoying Uncle to buy the local waterpark.

Pivot! Pivot! Pivot!

Reminder, no stream tonight. Was supposed to go have fun at a party but instead I'm either sick or so exhausted as makes no difference. Apologies!

I tried watching 5 seconds of figure skating today because people are like "This new skater's routine is amazing!" and I like to be convinced, but no, it is still just Futzing Around On Ice And I Can't Be Bothered

Streaming tonight at 8 p.m. I am absolutely, completely convinced that this will be the night that we do good in Nightreign, instead of bad.

Here at Crazed Prospector And Kitten, we're ready to take on the big law firms, and fight... FOR YOU!!

Breaking Bad and Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms fans successfully wreck each other's IMDB rankings Breaking Bad and Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms fans successfully wreck each other's IMDB rankings

Sometimes it's worth taking an extra 10 minutes to make a header image that makes you laugh www.avclub.com/breaking-bad...

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Forestrike demonstrates how practice can make perfect failure No artistic medium is better suited to discussing humanity’s natural inclination to fail than video games, as Forestrike proves.

I have a risk addict thing in me that video games help keep in control. ("What if I DON'T pick up the 500,000 souls I just dropped in this boss fight?") Forestrike makes a game out of that tension. It's really neat! www.avclub.com/forestrike-g...

James Cameron is writing the Senate hate letters about Netflix's Warner Bros. plans James Cameron is writing the Senate hate letters about Netflix's Warner Bros. plans

I don't always know if I exactly LIKE James Cameron, but I cannot deny that writing a letter to a senator where you throw around your weight as the planet's biggest blockbuster maker and then writing the line "I am but a humble movie farmer" is pretty GD funny.

If people didn't want me to doomscroll they shouldn't have named it like the dopest shit in a lich's library

@zhandlen.bsky.social's Quantum Leap recaps will run under the TV Club Classic banner every two weeks—just one of many reasons to subscribe to @avclub.com

Me, sitting quietly in an empty house and allowing the Universe Of Thought to flow through me: "The Skipper kept Gilligan around because having an external source of failure to constantly point to allowed him to abdicate his duty to self-interrogation."

You can tell this because HE is played by Keanu Reeves, and "you" are played by a gun arm voiced by a plank of wood.

The upshot is realizing that many people consider V, the player character, to be the "main character" of Cyberpunk, which I don't think is remotely true. It's Johnny Silverhand's story, you're just his cameraman.

Seeing people talk about Cyberpunk endings is weird because none of them seem to have chosen the objectively correct one where everyone lives happily ever after (Temperance)

Scott Bakula tries to leap back home for the first time Scott Bakula tries to leap back home for the first time

TV Club Classic is back, in subscriber-exclusive form! Join us at the link in bio as Zack Handlen kicks off his recap coverage of Quantum Leap.